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RSLS are expanding their influence in area regeneration as evidenced by the Housing Corporations's IGP programme which has funded at least 125 projects concerned with regeneration. The pressure is on, however, for social housing providers to play an even greater role in contributing to combating social exclusion, in contributing to local economic development and in improving the quality of life in run down areas. The Housing Corporation has established targets not just for the proportion for funding that should go to regeneration related schemes but for the involvement of RSLs in local regeneration partnerships. At the same time, national policy statements, including the housing green paper and the urban and rural white papers and the national strategy for neighbourhood renewal demonstrate the central role that housing could, and should, play in regeneration.
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This event examines the roles of all social housing providers and managers in helping to achieve the sustainable regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods and looks particularly at the implications of this wider remit for governance and for tenant involvement. It does this by disseminating the better practice that already exists in the interface between housing and investment and setting current practice in the swiftly changing context of wider regeneration policy and initiatives.
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The Convention will be workshop based in order to maximise the opportunities for delegate involvement and will be of interest to social housing providers and the Boards and tenant groups who direct them. It will involve itself in examining the roles and responsibilities with which both need to be familiar in order to lead in the current regeneration agenda. The themes of the Convention and the workshops are therefore concerned with partnerships, economic development, inclusivity and tenant involvement.
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The provision of support by the Housing Corporation enables fees to be held at a realistic level to encourage the attendance of individuals and organisations which might not otherwise consider attendance. The event mirrors the Corporation's own emphasis on partnerships by welcoming delegates from the local authority housing sector.
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